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There are so many ways to word an invitation to people to become Christians...
Repent and believe...
Admit, believe, confess...
Invite Jesus into your life...
Ask Jesus to be your Savior...
Give your life to Jesus...
Believe and receive...
Commit your life to Jesus...
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Does prayer make any difference? Absolutely! And prayer makes a difference because the living God, the Holy Spirit, lives inside the one praying. Further, when God's people get together and pray as a community, amazing things happen!
I'm sure you've seen plenty of those before-and-after photos … [Read more...]

Preaching, as a Pastor, is hard. It's not hard to get up and say something inspirational. It is hard to get up and rightly divide God's Word, build a bridge from an ancient culture to our own, and then to call people to an appropriate response to God's revealed truth consistently week after … [Read more...]

Jesus was more than a mere prophet - he was the sinless Son of God, the human-divine sacrifice for our sins. But he is a prophet nonetheless, and the greatest prophet the world has ever known.
We like to think of Jesus in any kind of role except that of preacher and prophet, but preaching was a … [Read more...]

I've hung out with megachurch pastors and I've read plenty of books and biographies of great leaders. But there is a hero from whom I've learned more about relational leadership than anyone else - my wife, Angie Cox.
I've learned about preaching, administration, and creative communications … [Read more...]

I've spent the last month or so mapping out the next year of preaching. That doesn't mean I'm preparing a year's worth of sermons in detail or that I won't make changes along the way. Sometimes a congregation experiences unexpected transitions or cultural events, and sometimes God just makes it … [Read more...]

Preaching is a sacred task. We who shepherd congregations are entrusted with the assignment of opening God's very own words to his people, week after week, and translating ancient truth to today's people. We are to preach so as to build up (edify), to hold up (encourage), and to fire up … [Read more...]

There are no "good" people in the Bible - at least not in the theological sense - except for Jesus. Everybody else is wrecked and ruined by sin and desperately in need of a Savior. So the way we have traditionally approached character-based sermons has a tremendous flaw. Here's the traditional … [Read more...]

Paul addressed the issue of sincerity in preaching on several occasions throughout the New Testament. One such instance is 2 Corinthians 2:17, "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." As I have reflected on … [Read more...]

I'm quite excited that after much studying, praying, agonizing, and wrestling, I finally caught a vision for a fresh series of messages for the three weeks leading up to Christmas this year. I'd share the graphics but I don't own the original. You can find it at Graceway Media.
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I'm Brandon. I've been blogging here for over a decade. I'm loved by God, saved by Jesus, and blessed with a wonderful bride and three children. We all live in Northwest Arkansas where I'm the Planting and Lead Pastor at Grace Hills Church. My wife, Angie, is a therapist and runs Magpie Counseling in addition to serving part-time on our church staff.

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